An annotated catalogue of salivary gland transcripts in the adult female mosquito, <it>Ædes ægypti</it>*

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Saliva of blood-sucking arthropods contains a cocktail of antihemostatic agents and immunomodulators that help blood feeding. Mosquitoes additionally feed on sugar meals and have specialized regions of their glands containing glycosi...

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Main Authors: Van My Phan, Calvo Eric, Lombardo Fabrizio, Arcà Bruno, Ribeiro José MC, Chandra Prafulla K, Wikel Stephen K
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-01-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/6